Autumn 1971
Motherwell begins living in Greenwich full-time. He meets the German photographer Renate Ponsold, and they soon begin dating.
Motherwell writes the introduction to a new edition of The Journals of Eugène Delacroix, for Viking Press.
He accepts an appointment as a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College for the academic year 1971-72.
Ulfert Wilke, Director of the University of Iowa Art Museum, proposes a mural commission to Motherwell. Wilke visits in October and they agree that Motherwell will paint a new, large Elegy to the Spanish Republic painting.
